Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1887-07-08

pass on nov and lyols at Stephen stoned. |
The world has always wanted 10 get rid II !
good men Thslr veiy life i an assault upon /
wickedness. Out with Stephen through the |
gates OF the city, Down with him OVER the
precipiceS. Let every man come up and drop
q stone upon his head. But iiiese men did
not 50 much kill Stephen as they killed them
selves. Every ssone rebOunded upon them.
While these murierers were transfixed by the
scorn Of all good men, Stephen lives In the
admiration of all Christendpm. Stephen
stoned; but Stephen alive. So all cool men
must be peltcd. All WHO will live cody In
Christ Jesus must suffer persecution. 1t Is no
eulogy OF man 10 say that every body likes
him. Show me anyone who Is doing all his
duty 10 state or church and will show yOG
scores Of men who utterly abhor him.
THE WORLD UNMERcIRUI4
If all men speak well OF YOU 1t is because
you are either laggar.i or dolt II steam
er makes rapid prugress through the waves,
the water VIII boil and foam all around it.
the carDines click When see a man with
voice, and money, and influence all on the
right side, and plae caricat,ire BIN, and some
sneer at him, and some denOunce hifn, and
men who pretend to be actuated BY right
motives consp're to cripple him, to cast him
out, to destroy him, say: s'Steplicn stoned.''
When j see rnan in some great moral or re-
ligicus reform battling against grog shops,
exposing wiclSedsess IN high places, by active
means trying to purify the church and bet
ter the worlds estate. and / find that the
newspapers anathematlze him aud men, even
good men. oppose him and denounce him,
because. though be does good. be does not
do it in their wav saw: ssSteplen sfoaed !,
The world, with Infinite spite, took after John
Frederick 0ber1in and Robert Muifat and Paul
and Stephen Of The text. But you notice. my
friends. that while they assaulted him they
did not succeed really IN killing him. You
may assault q good man but you can not kill
i. On the day Of his death Stephen spoke
re few people in the Sanhedrim; this
n-ovath morning he addresses all CAristcn-
dom. Paul the Apostle stood on Mars hill adj
dressing handful of philosophers who knew
not SO much about science as a modern
| school girl. To-day he talks to all the mil
lions of Cbristendom about the wonders OF
| Justification and the glories OF resurrection.
! John WESLEY was howled down by the mob to
| whom he preached, aud thew threw bricks at
him, and they denounced him, and they
| jostied him. and they spat upon him. and
| yet to-day, in all lands be is admitted to be
the great father of Methodisin. Booths
bullet vacated the presidential chair but from
that spot of coagulated blood on the floor in
| in the box of Ford's theater there sprang up
the new life OF nation. Stephen stoned;
| but Stephen alive.
THE sPIRITIN ALL MEN.
i Pass on now. and see Stephen in his dying
| prayer. His first thought was not how the
stones hurt his head, nor what would become
OF his body. His first thought was about his
/ spirit Lord Jesus, receive my spirit The
1 InuTQeTtT stduuluR Du Tie Trap uODf, L0e Dlack
cap being drawn over his head before his ex-
eeution, may griinace about the future but
i you ard | have no shame in confessing some
| anxiety about where We are going come out.
You are not all body. There Is within you
soul | see IL gloom from your eyes to-day, and
] see il irradiating your countenancc. Some
| times am abashed before an audience, moi
| because come under your physical eyesight,
| but because l realize the truth that stand
| before so many immortal spirits The prob
tphf ia fhufyf hale trftl 1oat Al q
| seputure In some of the cenetries that sur.
round this city. There is no doubt but tina
your obsequies will be decent and RESPECTFUL
and you will be able to pillow your head I'M
der the maple, or the Norway spruce or fht
cypress, or the blossom fir; but this spiri
about which Stephen prayed, what direction
| will that take What guide will escort it
What gate will open to receive it /! VIVA
cloud will be left ior the pathway After il
has got beyond the light of our SUM- vii
there be torches lighted for the rest OF III,
way 2 Win the soul have to travel through
long deserts before it reaches the good land
If We should loose our pathway will there b.
castle at whose gate we may ask the va,
to the city o. this mysterious spirit within
us it has two wings, but it IS in a Gag
now 1t is locked fast to keep it but let th
door of this cage open the least, and that sou
Is off. Eagles wings could not catch it. Tn
lightnings arc not WILT enough to take u
with it. When the soul leaves the body
takes fifty worlds at bound.
ANXIETY ABOUT THE SOUL
! And have no anxiety about It'll Have 70
no anxiety about;t? / do not care what 70
do with my body when my soul is gone. c
, whether you believe in cremation or inllum.
! ton. shall sleep just well in wrappin
of sackcloth as in satin lined with eagle
} down. But my soul-before leave this hous
this morning | will find ont where it is goln
} to land. Thank Goa for the intilnation of m
: text that when we die Jesus takes US. Ths
! answers all questions for me. What thong
! there were massive bars between here and th
city of light. Jesus could remove then
: What though there were great Saharas
: darkness. Jesus could Hume them.
What though | get weary on the way
Christ could lift me or his omnipoten
, shoulder What though there were ehasm
to cross. His hand could transport. The
let Stephens PRAYER be mv dying litany
Lord Jesus receive my spirit p" 1t may be
that hour We Will be too feeble to say Ion
PRAYER. 1t may be in that hour we viii not |
2 able to say the Lords Prayer for it has seve
; ! petitions. Perhaps We may be too feeble eve
I | to say the infant prayer our mothers taugl
l us, which john Quiney Adams, seventy veal
} Of age, said every night when lie put his hea
E upon his pillow:
4 Now lay me down to sleep
pray the Lord my soul TO keep.
l We may be too feeble to employ either {
these familiar forms: but this prayer
Stephen is SO short, is so concise. is SO earnes
: is SO comprehensive, we surely win be BILE [
i say lIldbs IOlu JESUS, receive HlY spflI
i | o, If that prayer is answered, how sweet
: will be to diel This world is clever enoug
i to us. Perhaps it has treated lis great de;
1 better than we deserved to be treated; but
V on the dy ing pillow there shall break the liel
of that better world, we shall have no NOR
a regret about leaving small dark, dam
] house for one large, beautiful and cspaciou:
i That dying minister in Philadelphia, som
= years ago, beautifully depicted it. when, /
: the last moment, he threw up his hands an
!; cried out: II move into the Light
e STEPHENS LAST HOUR.
1 Pass on now, and l VIII show you on
/ more picture, and that is Stephen ASLEEP
D With a pathos and simplicity peculiar to I'll
t Scriptures, the text says of Stephen: 81
i fell asleeppl 80 - you say, ''what a plac
: that was to sleopi a hard rock under hin
stones falling down upon him, the bloc
streaming, the mob bowling, What a plaC
L it was to sleepw And vet my text takes tn;
n symbol of slumber TO descr be his departur,
L so sweet was il, 50 contented was it, SO peac,
n FIJI was it. stephen had lived q very labor
e Gus life. His chief work had been 10 care Il
: I he poor How many loavcs Of bread he di
t tributed. how many bare feet he had ssndale
s blessed with ministries of kindness and Low
e / do not know; but from the way lie lived, au
{; the way lie preached, and the way he died,
n know he was a laborious Christian. But III;
n is all over nov. lie has pressed the cup to Il
i last faintinE lip.
It He has taken the last insult from his en-
u mics. The last stone to whose crushu
e weight he is susceptible has been hurle
u Stephen is dead The disciples come. tn,
c fake him up. They wash away the blood fro
o the wounds They straighten out the bruist